How dare I switch up pancake Sunday and make blueberry muffins! I’m such a rebel! To be fair, these actually tasted like pancakes in muffin form with a sweet crumble topping. I decided to go halfsies on the flour and add whole wheat. It gave a much denser batter that required more liquid. That’s just me striving to make everything healthier. You can certainly sub the flour. I am sure they would have been lighter and fluffier had I stuck with all purpose flour but we gobbled these right up regardless! They tasted great by our standards. We like our pancakes and muffins HEARTY. Biting in and hitting a fresh juicy baked blueberry made these a hit with me!

My friends wanted the recipe the other day when they saw my Instagram post. I was hoping to make them a few more times before I shared, uh cuz I was just playing around. But that may never happen, so oh what the heck… I will tell you what I did, and then share my notes.

Let’s talk about the avocado for a second… think of it as an oil or butter substitute. It’s a healthier fat and a whole food. It’s a better-for-you-ingredient and it didn’t even turn my final product green nor did it taste like guacamole *wink*. You don’t taste the avocado at all. I have seen internet pics of avocado blueberry muffins that do indeed look green. Fancy lighting? Photoshop? It could be that I used whole wheat flour which absorbed too much liquid? I don’t know. Baking is not my expertise… I have been seeing versions of these around the interwebs and I just wanted to try. So I did. Here is my recipe:

Ok, I lied… first you need to watch this video.

I don’t think I can ever eat another blueberry without thinking of this poor sweet child! Blueberries, blueberries!!!

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line a muffin tin with 12 paper liners

Using a fork, blend crumb topping ingredients until well mixed and crumbly. Keep cold in the fridge until ready

In the bowl of your food processor, add the avocado, flax egg, vanilla, sugars, almond milk and soy yogurt. Give it a whiz until well blended. Transfer to a larger bowl.

In another bowl, add flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt, blend well with a whisk and add or sift into the wet ingredients. Only stirring to combine. Do not over stir. Gently fold in the blueberries.

Bake for 20 minutes or until knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

Let slightly cool.

Best enjoyed warm

*Notes* I have been using black salt in my recipes where an egg flavor might be present such as pancakes or omelets, quiche, french toast, etc… You can certainly sub regular salt. I try to cut sugar whenever possible so I subbed raw stevia for half. You can use all brown sugar or split half brown and half organic sugar. You can even add 1/4 cup MORE organic sugar to increase the sweetness. I didn’t want these to be too sweet. You shouldn’t use all stevia by itself because baking requires some moisture from the sugar.

If using all purpose flour instead of whole wheat flour, you may not need to add almond milk. Or just try 1/4 cup because most of the recipes I have seen that were similar, noted 8 oz yogurt. I only had a 6 oz container. So I was already short “liquid” so 1/2 cup almond milk worked for me. My batter was VERY thick. I could have used more liquid. So this may be a recipe in progress, playing with the liquid, but if you make this exactly like I did, it should come out great. Just remember to adjust the sweetener if you want the final product more dessert like. Or follow my directions for a slightly sweet breakfast muffin. Don’t forget there is a sweet topping that adds to it.